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I see a lot of people treat their employer as a cash cow, or an ogre, or just a means to an end. They do what they have to do, what they are forced to do, and watch the clock and try to kill time until the whistle blows.

They have no real interest in doing a GOOD job, no pride in their work, all they feel is a resentment of their employers for making them work, while finding every excuse possible to cut corners and goldbrick on the job as much as they can.

I realize that this is a very easy description to apply to people that you know. Lazy bums who are just worthless. But does it describe you? Of course not, you say! Well… let’s see if you DO treat your employer just like you should.

You know, the Bible says a lot on this subject. And I’m willing to bet you don’t measure up. Yes, yes, most people don’t measure up, but that’s not the point! We’re dealing with what YOU should do! How YOU should act! Because surprising though it may be, this subject is CRUCIAL to your SALVATION! Read the rest of this entry »

What are dreams? Where do they come from? Can you control them? Why did God design man - and the animals - so that they could dream? What possible purpose could they serve in the plan of God? Everyone has probably thought about a few of these questions from time to time. And before we are through, I think you will see that dreams are one of the most valuable tools in the arsenal of those trying to build in themselves the nature of God. I think we’ll also explain a few previously unexplained scriptures along the way. So what does the Bible say about dreams? Read the rest of this entry »

Matthew 11:28-30 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Tell me, those of you who have been in this walk of life for at least a little while; DOES HIS YOKE SEEM EASY TO YOU?

Come on, ‘fess up. I’ve never met anyone who didn’t, at least at some point, think “MAN this yoke is heavy! And I can think of a lot of things I might call this “burden”, but LIGHT isn’t one of them!”

So then… was Christ lying? Was He just speaking metaphorically? Was He just speaking of some spiritualized, unreal version of reality? Or… here’s a thought… maybe YOU’VE done something to bely His promise of a light, easy burden on your walk with God!

John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

And while we are at it, do you feel - and have you always felt, since learning the truth - FREE? I trust not. I suspect rather, that you are like most whom I’ve known, who felt this way of life was like living in a box - a box which deprived you of enjoyment, of fun, of friends, and of everything that once excited you and interested you, a box which is much more like a prison than a paradise!

Mark 10:29-30 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s, But he shall receive an hundredfold NOW IN THIS TIME, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

And here is a fun one - if you have truly been in this way of life for any length of time at all, then you have lost houses, business deals, family, friends, for the truth’s sake. Your friends don’t like you any more, since you’ve found this kooky religion! But the question is… have YOU experienced a HUNDRED TIMES MORE FRIENDS? Have you been rewarded with ONE HUNDRED PROFITABLE BUSINESS DEALS FOR EVERY ONE THAT YOU WALKED AWAY FROM FOR HIS SAKE?

I didn’t think so. So the question is… WHY? WHY is His yoke heavy for you? WHY don’t you feel free? WHY haven’t you received the hundredfold blessings God promised to His servants? Well, there is only one possible explanation. You haven’t been pulling the yoke with Christ - you’ve been pulling AGAINST HIM! Read the rest of this entry »

What was Job’s sin? Why did He have to go through such trials and tribulations? Was he proud and self-righteous? Or was it something else? Should we hold Job up as a warning to those who dare to say “I am righteous”, or as an EXAMPLE to those who should dare to say just that?

Job has received an unfair judgment by nearly everyone who ever mentioned his name, most of whom would not have been fit to be in charge of Job’s kennel, much less condemn him. So I think it’s time you heard the TRUTH about one of the greatest men who ever lived!

To begin with, God LOVED Job. Before and after this trial! God was so impressed with Job He used him as an example of what He would do for a righteous man.

Ezekiel 14:12-14 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.

God LIKED Job! Never forget that! His opinion is what counts - not YOURS, not your grandmother’s, not even (or especially?) your minister’s!

Job simply KNEW he wasn’t evil. Men have often interpreted this as PRIDE, or Self-Righteousness, but that is not so! It isn’t pride to say “I haven’t sinned”…. when you haven’t! It is TRUTH!

Job 10:7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

God agreed! Job was saying what was absolutely true when he said this! God didn’t say he was proud, self-righteous, or arrogant! This is what GOD, Himself said about Job!

Job 1:8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

God said Job was perfect! Again, He didn’t use the term proud or self-righteous, BUT MEN HAVE! Read the rest of this entry »

When I make bold statements like “God has obligated Himself to answer your prayers QUICKLY, and DRAMATICALLY”, or “A righteous man will ALWAYS receive an answer to his prayer”, and things like that (which I say often) , people often object and say “But what about Paul?? HE prayed 3 times before getting an answer!” or again, “What about Job??”. There are usually only 5 things that people come up with as an objection to my statements.

The reason most people object to them is because they realize that I am making them RESPONSIBLE before God to have their prayers answered, and because I say that if their prayers are NOT answered, it is because God is NOT happy with them.

I say that their OBEDIENCE is directly tied to their faith, and that THEY are in control of their own faith. That they are both able and RESPONSIBLE to build and nurture their own faith, AND THAT THEY MUST!

To a world which has been taught that you should just “believe” and God will love you just as you are, this comes as quite a shock. BUT IT IS THE TRUTH! And until you KNOW what you CAN do, what goal it is POSSIBLE to achieve, as long as you are in the dark and believe that you CAN’T nurture your faith, and believe that it’s all God’s job, you WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO PLEASE GOD!! Read the rest of this entry »

Are you BEING the salt of the Earth? Do you even know HOW? The salt of the Earth is not a title, it is a JOB. A job that requires WORK, requires EFFORT to perform it - and to do that, you have to know what that job entails - you can’t very well do something if you don’t even know what it is!

Salt is composed of one atom of Sodium and one of Chlorine, hence it’s chemical formula is NaCl, or Sodium Chloride. And we have heard a lot from traditional medicine in the last few years about how bad salt is for our bodies. Salt is bad, salt is evil, etc. But God disagrees!

Luke 14:34 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

God says Salt is good. Now who will we believe? A science who continually has some fad, some current evil that must be avoided at all costs - in my short lifetime I can recall a time when Cholesterol was the cause of all man’s ills. Then there was the time when Fat was to blame for every malady. Salt of course had it’s day as the harbinger of death, and these days we are on a witchhunt to eliminate Carbs.

Surely it is logical to assume that in a few years Carbs will be forgotten and we will be on a low-vegetable diet, or a diet poor in red colored foods, or some other fad. So will we believe this science, or God - the guy who made salt in the first place, and must have some vague idea of how salt and the human body interact! Read the rest of this entry »

Narrow-minded literalists would just say “well, He must know something we don’t - blood MUST be bad for you somehow!” … but that’s just cheating. Yes, God said not to do it and so we shouldn’t - but that doesn’t tell us WHY! And knowing WHY is NECESSARY if we are to ever come to know the mind of God!

That the commandment against eating blood has nothing overtly to do with “health” is evident by the fact that many cultures around the world consume blood on a daily basis and rather than being unhealthy for it, are far healthier than we are. In African tribes such as the Masai it is a staple of the diet, and cattle are milked and bled on a regular basis. And yet God lays down the law repeatedly that blood is never to be consumed. So why? Ironically, this is one of those questions that is solved in the very verse that introduces the concept in the first place. It’s so simple it’s almost not worth writing about and yet… no one else seems to know the answer so I guess I might as well be the one. And who knows, I might even be able to make it interesting… and of course, I am going to tease the answer a bit - just for fun… Read the rest of this entry »

HOW did God heal people? I mean the actual physics, the mechanics of WHAT HAPPENED in an arm that He healed, or a leper that He cleansed - HOW did He do it? What chemical reactions went on in that person to make them better?

And although these questions don’t at present seem related, did God create mature trees, magically, or did they grow? Which came first, the tree or the seed? Before we’re done you’ll see that these questions are foundational to HOW GOD HEALS!

Genesis 2:8-9 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;

The key words here are “planted” and “Made the lord God to grow”. These answer all our questions. First of all, if God just *poof* made a full grown tree, it would not need planted, nor would it need to be “made to grow”. This shows that God did NOT do it that way. But how then? How did God take a tree from a seed or seedling to maturity (large enough to cover Adam and have mature food ripe for eating) in three days? Read the rest of this entry »

This is a touchy subject; but touchy or not, it’s time we understood it. Let me state up front that if you think that any of the races are not children of God and don’t have an equal status in God’s eyes if they act in the same manner, read my article on “Satan’s Seed”. Otherwise, this scripture sums it up:

Acts 10:34-35 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

That said, there are black people and white people and yellow people and red people; tall people, short people, skinny people, fat people; blue eyes and brown, blonds and redheads, people with receding foreheads and people with jutting foreheads. People with male pattern baldness and people with hereditary allergies to Fava beans. So where did they all come from?

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We all know that there was a Jesus who was compassionate, and loving, and merciful; the Bible is full of hundreds of scriptures that speak of his patience and kindness. But was He also a rude racist?

“Certainly not!”, most people exclaim. But how can we square that answer with this scripture:

Matthew 15:21-22 (NKJV) Then Jesus went out from there and departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed.”

Now if Jesus IS a merciful, loving, compassionate man, surely His heart would have ached for this woman’s suffering! And yet He callously replied… by ignoring her!

Verses 23-24 But He answered her not a word. And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, “Send her away, for she cries out after us.” But He answered and said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

And despite His disciples’ urging, He flatly refused to help her! Just because she wasn’t of some “special race”, she wasn’t worth his time! What a bigot!

Verses 25-26 Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, help me!” But He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.”

Even after she begged him, pleading in every way she knew, He flatly refused to lift a finger to help her – and to top it off, He ridiculed and insulted her by calling her a dog!

Verses 27-28 And she said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.” Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.

And finally, to stop her nagging, he at last condescended to help her. Is this truly a Jesus of “full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.” (Psalms 86:15)?

Arguments such as this are FAIR! This is what the Bible says, and it deserves an honest, SIMPLE answer! So I ask again… WAS Jesus a rude RACIST? Read the rest of this entry »